0 present participle of nick --
1 to steal something: --
2 If the police nick someone, they catch them for committing a crime: --
He can even create a stock shortage himself by nicking half a dozen electric bulbs and taking them home.
If necessary, we can send them to prison for nicking from houses or cars because they want money for drugs—that is a different matter.
I have not heard of any arguments for nicking, and it seems plain that that operation is cruel.
It involves nicking £465 million from the health service budget.
You cannot go round nicking cars, marauding around the streets and leading your lives as criminals.
That may well be true, but that is not necessarily true of nicking.
Nicking, it is admitted, is very rarely carried on in this country to-day.
Pushers create a dependency market for which they have guaranteed customers who have less and less money and thus go thieving, burgling and nicking.
